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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1912)
rilK liHK: OMAHA, FU1 DAY, XOYHMUKU 2!), 11)12 The facts and figures of the Orkin Brothers Piano Club f This is the largest single piano transaction ever made in this country. This is the largest piano club ever formed. This is the largest piece of winter work ever laid out by a piano house. $" We bought 500 pianos all of one grade and all from one manufacturer, in beautiful figured and plain mahogany, walnut and oak in the very latest up-to-date style and finish. IF We bought these pianos cheap. We saved big money in buying them. Many a piano dealer is pay ing twenty-five to thirty -five dollars more for the same identical pianos. F And we are selling them cheap. 1F It's our winter work to sell these pianos. Not our exclusive work, however. Selling these 500 pianos is our winter task in addition to our regular day to day piano business. m To facilitate this work we are forming a gigantic piano club. A piano club of 500 members, each and every one of whom will enjoy precisely the same advantages and privileges. Cff Such a gigantic work means many economies. It means a saving in the initial cost of the piano. It means a saving in the freight, in the cartage, in the selling expense. It means a willingness on our part to take a smaller percentage of profit than we can regularly afford to make-r-in other words, a winter profit. f So taking all these things into account, it means an enormous saving to the individual buyer or club member. To be exact, it means a clean cut saving of ninety -two dollars and fifty cents to each and every member of the club nearly a hundred dollars to say nothing of the other innumerable advantages and privileges the club carries with it that piano buyers do not ordinarily get. The whole story " Wish we had a piano in our home. F The regular selling price and actual value of these pianos is $350 each. The Orkin Brothers Club price is $257.50 each. The club price includes everything. There are no extras of any kind. No interest to be added. Nothing to be added for drayage, stool, scarf absolutely no extras. Two hundred and fifty seven dollars and fifty cents is the price, and the price includes 202 weeks time in which to pay it. q Xhe dub price $257.50 is payable, $5.00 when you join the club, then weekly payments of $1.25. If you will figure a little you will see that this gives you exactly 202 weeks in which to pay for the piano. Your payments are less than if you would rent a piano. The piano is delivered immediately. You do not have to wait until the club is filled. You get your piano when you join. J We said above, that $257.50 includes every thing. So it does. But a club member can re duce this price by paying faster. The Club Members' Agreement has 202 Coupons attached' to it very much like a bond. A Coupon represents a week. Two Hundred and Two Coupons represent 202 weeks, or the life of the club. Every time a payment is made, one of these Coupons is stamped "Paid.'' If payments are made in advance that is before they are due, a reduction of IS cents is made for each and every week, and this reduction is handed over to the Club Member in cash. You can therefore see that the club price ($257.50) can be reduced just as many times Fifteen Cents as you will pay weekly payments in advance or before they are due. Thus, -if you pay one week in advance, you will get a reduction of 15 cents in cash. If you will pay two weeks in advance you will get a reduction of 30 cents in cash, and so on. Orkin Brothers Player-piano Club m Wo havu Inaugurated a I'lnyer-plnno club in conneo 4JL Uon with our C00 plnno club. The price of these j rlub 1'lnjer.planoi Is :i9R dollars the terras are dollar tlio flrttt payment nml U dollars n week without Intoi est luliled. These I'layer-plnnos have never been bold for less than $r50, with terms of $25 down Bnd $1 a month, with Interest added at the rato o( C per cent. 'Chts Is the first time, to far as our knowledge rocs, that sMch trustworthy Instruments hao been offered for Sale upon such popular terms as ft dollars tlio first payment and ? dollar n week without Interest, added. Theso I'laycr-plnno are standard 88. nolo players that Is, these Club Plioer-plnnos piny cry note on tlio piano when tho music roll Is In motion these Playor-planoj have an automatic shifter which compel the music to piny perfectly. Most player-pianos sold at from $200 to J250 more than theso Club Player-pianos will not play perfectly. The tubings In our I'layer-planos are so placed they can not bo broken. Wo give you an unconditional guarantee with these Club Plnyer-plauos. 1. The rinycrplano club will consist of 100 members. 2. The I'layrr.plauo club members can tako their choice between two of tho best Player-pianos on tho market. 8. Tho Player-piano club price Is 305 dollars. 1. The saving In price to ench Player-plann club member Is IR 5 dollars. B. Tho Plnyer-plnno club member has no interest, to pay. fi. Tho terms to Piano-player club members aro 9 dollars cosh and 2 dollars a wcok- pr, putting It In another way, Player-piano club niombers havn 108 weoks in which to pay for their Plnycr-plano. 7. Player-piano club members secure tho free use of 1,000 rolls of Player-piano Music for one year from the Music Uoll Library- the largest Music Roll Li brary In this section of tho country. S. IK A PLAVK.H-PIANO CI A' It MHMHKIt lIKS DUR ivii mil.'. i.ii.M.! nw ill (UlXTUACi'1 VK WIL1; 1M- MKIUATKLY VAXVV.h ALL KLTUHK PAVMKNTA AXI 8KNl A ItKCKIPT IN FULL TO Ills MJiuii i on TIIM IXSTItr.MUNT. You can own ono of the.se Plnyei-planos for $f tlj first payment then a neck without Interest added. We want to ngnlu mako mention of theso terms. Lsy aside tho price --305 dollars- -and the cash saving It carrion with It of tH cents each nml every week you pay faster than tho regular terms of a dollars a week. Hut let us renter your attention on theso terms 1 dollars tho first payment then a dollars a week without Interest, added. If the Orkin Hros. player-plano club did not have another redeeming feature, this ono of terms would carry It to suc cess; 3 dollars tho first payment then i? dollars a wee enables anyone to buy the best the world affords In player pianos and scarcely miss the money. It has bocn said of Chopin that ho was tho fairy godmother of the piano. That until his time it had boon the Cinder ell of instruments, and that ho ralsud it from )ts former humbl station to bo the greatest and most comprehensive "of instruments F If this Club piano is not satisfactory after 30 days' use we will give you your money back. F It is our belief, however, that a person cannot get a satisfactory trial of any piano, either good or bad, in 30 days-. If though, a thirty days' trial does dissatisfy a Club Mem ber, we will give him his money back. On the other hand, we have arranged a trial for each and every Club piano that will show whether or not this Club piano is worthy of a permanent place in your home. IF Printed across the face of the contract is an agreement that gives to each and every Club Member the privilege of exchanging his Club piano, at any time within one (1) yeart without one penny's loss. "opyrlght 1912 by Stone & Mcf'arrlck, inc. Unau thorized use in whole or I part of colorable summaries thereof forbidden. Formerly The Bennett Co. 16th and Harney Streets, Omaha, Neb. f You join the Club You then, aB a Club Member, become entitled to all its advan tages and privileges. qF One of these privileges is a year's trial of the piano. In other words the Club member has one full year's time to fully satisfy himself as to the character of the piano he is getting. At the end of the year the Club Member can come to our store and make another selection. He can select a piano of equal or better grade, and whatever money he has paid, whether it is $60, $75, $100, $200, or whatever the amount, will be credited to the price of his new piano, and we will take the original Club piano back without the loss of a single cent to him. Orkin Brothers Kindly ind int particular about your Piano Club and your F!myr-7ino Olab, Chickering, Kurtzman, Ivers & Pond. Auto Pianos and Player Pianos--and Victor Talking Machines. Warns Addrtu City Stat Broken Bow Will Rebuild Water Plant HltOKBN. BOW. Neb.. Nov. 2S.-(Spc-At the regular meeting of the city nincll he)d this week definite action oas taken regarding the city water works 'lUMtlon. which has been hanging fire for somo time. Elnce tho report of Chief Boiler Inspector Itobert V. Wolfo of Jmalia was submitted to the council, in which he advised the city to dispose of he iiM bailor and numDS. there has been 'noie or leas friction involved as to Just ' ':at steps Hhould be taken. At tho lout "ing a resolution was adopted to the ' ft that the water works plant owned t'li- city shall be repaired and that ' hose he made of suitable engine. n ns and boiler, and that the maehln- v be run either by steam, gas. oil or e'trhlt), and that the amount to b expended for Improvements shall not ex ceed $G,CO). BODY OF MRS. VAN DUSEN BURIED AT FALLS CITY FALLS CITY, Neb7,Nov. 28.-(8eclaS.l Miss Maule Van Dusen, who leaped to death froh the twentieth story of the McCormlck building in Chicago Monday, taught tho Prairie Union school near Stella about fifteen years ago. She was then the personification of womanly beauty, giaco and refinement and her school In management and discipline was a model In every respect. Miss Van Duscn was valedictorian of the class) of im in the FallH City High school. Her father formerly practiced law and her mother was a. physician. Both aro quite aged, but still maintain a home here. The body was brought from Chlcaao yes terdav and the funeral was held UiIh afternoon Key to the SItuatlon-Bee Advertising. Notes from Nebraska City and Otoe County XKBItAHICA CITY, Nov. 28.-Speclal.) Cllv Commissioner Tt. K. llawlev has nur- ! chased the old II. St M. hotel and Is wrecking the same. It is ono of the oldest landmarks in the city, being a por tion of the old Cincinnati hotel that stood on the corner of Eighth street and First corro and was built In IBM. The site oc cupied by the old Cincinnati hotel Is now occupied by the postofflce. . George 11. Robinson, manager of tho Nebraska City Vinegar works, nnd Miss .Iranrttr Manloy went to Kansas City and were quietly married. Mrs. S. B. Tysonnd daughter were thrown from a buggy laxt evening and seriously Injured by tho horren running away. Thcte were three alarm? of fire last evening, one being caused by a burning flue n a residence on east side This was followed by a flro at the home of F, W. Cleveland, which was extinguished with a small loss, and tho third was at Hector Olsen's cigar store. All losses were cov ered by Insurance. Tho officers of the Klngfalfu plant, which was destroyed last Saturday morn ing, are adjusting their" losses with the insurance companies us fast as possible and hopo to conclude by .Hatuiriay, whn the stockholders will meet and decide ux t where the new plant la to bo erected and Its size. Tho plant Is owned by local capitalists, who offer to double their stock if It need bo to put up the nivf plant. Walter JIcNamara, a cattle raiser on the cant sldo of the river, has fost thir teen head of rattle within tho last two weeks by reason of some mysterious dis ease. He had neveral veterinarians ex amine them, hut they have failed to give the disease a name. The cattlo get lame and move around with difficulty and In a rhort time are dead. The body or George loi-.er v,;w died i In Omaha, was brought to this city for Interment. 11c was Tt years of nge and moved to Omaha only a bliort time since. Word wun received In this city last overling of the death of llalph D. Fraker at Branson, Mo., leaving a wife and two children. He was 61 years of age and for many years a recldent of this city and is survived by Mrs. Frank II. Fields nnd Mrs. Albert Harman of this city and Uloy Fraker of Omaha. NEWS NOTES OF SEWARD AND OF SEWARD COUNTY BKWlUin, Neb., Nov. W.-(Hpec!al.)-Mrs. M. B. Hart (trove, an old settler, died at her home In Keward Tuesday. She leaves a eon, Charles of Omaha, an.l a daughter. Mrs. Alice Fox of Bartlets vllle. Okl. The funeral was 1ield Wednes. day at S:30 p. in. Halisburv & Brown have bought the If IDIers lots In South 8eward and have bought the old Burlington depot and moved It onto them, which thoy will re model Into a residence. Hertlo I). Pickrel. chief chef at the Alley Oelmonlco, was united In marriage Monday to Miss Kills lllgley of Ulasford, III. Walter Gruber and Miss Wlizubeth B. Jlelllnr of aresham were granted a mar riage license by Judge Coleman yesterday. Mrs. William Heal, one of tne early settlers and highly respected women of Tamova, died nt her home In that village at an early hour Tuesday morning aged 67 years. Joshua Dipper was struck by an auto mobile driven by George Osborn of Staple hurst yesterday forenoon and seriously Injured. The accident happened near the Burlington depot. Tho members of the Presbyterian I church tendered a farewell reception last I night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. 'Anderson for Mr. and Mm. A. Y Davis. I well known citizens, who leave this week for California. District court lonvened Monday, when tho cao of the Nebraska-Iowa Grain com puny against tho Lincoln & Northwestern Itallroud company was .tried. Ximt TrlrjihoiM- I,lnc Ordered. 8TtiM,.. Nab., Nov. ZS.-(Bpecla!.)A metallic telephone toll line twenty-two mllu.s long has been constructed tills fall between Howe and Humboldt, and was opened today. The line was built by the Farmers' Telephone company, of Hof and the Mutual Telephone company of Hutnboldt. This Is the first direct line between these two points. "There could bo no better medlolne than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, My chil dren were sick with whooping cough. One of them was In bed, had a. high fever and was coughing up bipod. Our doctor gave them Chamberlain's Cough Itemcdy and the first dose cased them, and threo bottles cured them," says, Mrs. It. A. Donaldson, of Lexington, Mtsr. Fur tato by all dealers. Advertisement. Key to the Situation Bee Advertising.